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|Title=Goals
|Text=The Male Circumcision Consortium (MCC) works with the Government of Kenya and other partners to prevent [[HIV]] and save lives by expanding access to safe and voluntary male circumcision services.
FHI, the {{UNI|University of Illinois at Chicago|UIC}}, and EngenderHealth are partners in the Male Circumcision Consortium. The MCC is funded by a grant to FHI from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from August 2007 to February 2013.
The Male Circumcision Consortium's objectives are to:
Their website identifies the following institutions as providing "review of materials written for the Clearinghouse":
* {{UNI|Harvard University |HU}} School of Public Health - <i>home of [[Daniel_T._Halperin|Dr. Daniel T. Halperin]] at the AIDS Prevention Research Project</i>
* Jhpiego (Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics) - <i>Johns Hopkins is the home of [[Ronald Gray]], director of the [[Rakai Project]]</i>
* London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - <i>which has published a couple pro-circ studies by [[Helen Weiss]] et al.</i>
* {{UNI|University of Illinois at Chicago |UIC}} School of Public Health - <i>home of [[Robert_C._Bailey|Robert Bailey]], who's behind the big African RCTs</i>
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* [[UNAIDS]]
* [http://www.avac.org/ AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)]
* [[FHI (Family Health International)]](FHI)
* [http://www.futuresinstitute.org/default.aspx Futures Institute]
* [http://www.ghtechproject.com/ The Global Health Technical Assistance Project] by [[USAID]]